Car-handling system.



J. McMYLER.

CAR HANDLING SYSTEM.

APgucmoN man FEB. 11. 1915.

Patented Sept. 18,1917.

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J. McMYLER.

CAR HANDLING SYSTEM.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. H. 1915. 1,240,466. Patented-Sept. 18,1917.

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lwwfizfozi UNITED STATES PATENT oFEIoE.

A OHN MQMYLER, or CLEVELAND, O'IY-IIOQASSIGNIOR To THE McMYLER IivrERs'r T COMPANY, or BEDFQRD, OHIO, A CORPORATION or OHIO.

GAR-HANDLING SYSTEM.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN MCMYLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new 'car traveling along a narrow gage track,

extending from a. .point a short distance from the car dumper up an inclined approach to the dumper cradle. The loaded cars are usually allowed to drift or run by gravity from an elevated track down an inclin'e to the base of the inclined approach to the car dumper or to the point at which they are picked up by the haulage car.

.This haulage system and method of handling the cars is satisfactory in many respects, but has numerous disadvantages. For example, the inclined approaches are rather expensive to build, requiring elevated tracks and fills. Additionally, a number of men are required to handle the cars,usua1ly one man riding on, each car as the same I drifts down the incline to the point at which it is adapted to be picked up by the haulage.

car. Furthermore, with many haulage systems operating on the principle above stated,

there is a considerable element of risk in the. shifting of the cars, due to'the fact. thatitis rather diificult to control the cars as they.

are passing down the incline, and it is some times the case that collisions occur if a car,

ments -of parts. which willbe described in.

the specification and set forth in the. appended claims.

In the accompanying sheet of drawings,

showing one embodiment of my-invention,

Figure l is a plan viewofthe inajorpora V specifieation'of Letters Patent. Patented Sept. 18, 1917. Application filed February 11,1915. Serial No. 7,638.

tionof the car handling apparatus, many, I I

of the, parts being shown conventionally,

Fig. 2 is a sectional view substantially along I the line 2 2 of Fig. 1, the transfer table and haulage carthereon being shown in elevatlon; Fig. 3 is .a sectional view substantially along the line 3-3 of Fig. 1, looking in the direction indicated by the arrows; Fig. 4 ma sectional view substantially along a line H of Fig. 1, looking inthedirection ind catedby the arrows.

' The car handling apparatus includes one ormore tracksvlO for the loaded cars, there being any-number of thetracks, four of the same being here shown. These tracks may all be built on level ground, no inclined or elevated track portions being required, asthe loaded cars are not. intended to pass along any portion-of the tracks'by gravity. 7

At 12 is shown av oar dumper which in this case is located laterally and close to the tracks 10. This car dumper usually consists of frame-work or tower 13 having a cradle 14,.which is adapted to receive the cars one at a time, and is adapted to be elevated and then tilted so as to dump-the contents .of a car into a suitable chute, the cradle having tracks upon whichthe car may be run.

Located at the ends of the tracks 10 and adjacent one end of the car dumper 12 is a pit 15 having at the bottom,a.- series of rails 16 extending at right angles to the tracks 10 and car dumper12. Traveling over these rails in the pit W is a so-called transfer table 17. I This transfer table which; is adapted to be, shifted laterally so as to convey loaded cars from any one of the tracks 10 toqthe' dumper, is provided with a track 18 which is on the same level with the-tracks 10, and with the track on the. cradle ltof the car dumper when the latter is in itsnormallowered position. I I Adapted to travel back and forth on track. 18 of the transfer table. is a haulage car 19 having a forwardly projecting r 20, provided at its outer end with a car coupler, and of suflicient length that a car located on any one'of the tracks'lO ata predetermined distance fromthe pit. can be engaged and coupled to the haul'agecar, so that it can be drawn onto the transfer table by the latter. Furthermore, the length of this arm 20 is such that after the transfertable-has been brought in alinement with the i V the car dumper the haulage car may push a loaded car from the transfer table onto the cradle of the car dumper and center the car on the cradle.

The haulage car may be shifted back and forth over the track of the'transfer' table by any suitable mechanism, but in this instance it is pulled back and forth by a cable 21 which is wound a suitablenumber of times around a drum 22, which may be driven by any suitable motor or engine, and is located in an inclosure 23 erected on one end of the transfer table. connected at one end to the rear end of the haulage car and thence extends rearwardly' around the drum, and thence forwardly beneath the top of the transfer table about a sheave 2* at the forward end of the trans fer table, and after passing about this sheave is attached to the lower rear side of the haulage car at 25. WVith this arrangement the haulage car can be moved from a point adjacent the inclosure 23 to the opposite end of the transfer table with the coupler. arm 20 projecting beyond the transfer table, as

shown by full lines in Fig. 2.

Any suitable mechanism may beemployed for shifting the transfer table laterally along the rails 16. The track-wheels of the turntable may be geared to a motor contained within the inclosure 23, or within the provided with loaded cars, the cars on each track being left coupled, and the foremost car standing close to the pit in substantially the. position shown in Fig. 2. The transfer table is shifted laterally along the tracks 16 until the track 18 on the table is in line with one of the tracks 10 from which the cars-are to'be taken; then the haulage car is run for wardly and the coupler arm is coupled to the adjacent car on the track and-then the haulage Car is moved toward the opposite end of the transfer table, pulling forwardly the entire string of cars on the track, and pulling one of the cars onto the-track of the transfer table, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 2. rlVhen the second car from the end of the string is in substantially the po-.

sition previously occupied by the first car, as shown in Fig. 2, the foremost car now standing partially on the transfer table is uncoupled from the next car, whereupon the uncoupled car may now be pulledentirely This haulage rope '21 is upon the transfer table. Thence the transfer table is moved laterally to the car dumper, and when it is in alinement with the latter the car is pushed by the haulage car back to the same track 10 or to some other track 10 from which the cars are to be taken, and the operation is repeated. After the car has been emptied in the dumper it passes away from the ear dumper on a so-called empty track,- a portion of which is shown at the right hand end of the car dumper. The empty car may be pushed from the cradle by the following loaded car as; the latter is being pushed onto the cradle by the-haulage car. I

The car dumper may discharge the contents of loaded cars into any suitable receiving receptacle or container. In many instances it is arranged to discharge material directly into boats. I In other instances it discharges into cars or receivers in the form of buckets. In this case the car dumper is adapted to dlscharge directly into buckets 32 mounted on flat cars 33 running along a track -34: which extends from the car and may be otherwise arranged thanhere shown.

' l/Vith the car handling apparatus by which the loaded cars are brought from the loaded tracks and are delivered one at a time on the car dumper, the cars maybe handled very rapidly and with minimum danger and low cost of operation especially as far as the number of operators is concerned. Furthermore, as previously stated,v by avoiding the necessity'for the inclined or elevated tracks the first cost of the apparatus and track layout .is-less than that of the haulage sys-- tems and track layouts commonly. employed atthe present time with car dumpers.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is 1'. In a car handling system, one or more tracksfor loaded cars, a car receiving de- 2. In a car handling system, one or more tracks for loaded cars acar receiving de However, that vice and a traveling platform of sulficient length to receive a car for transferring cars from said track or tracks to the car receiving device, and means on said platform for shifting the cars.

8. In a car handling system, one or more tracks for loaded cars, a car receiving device, a traveling platform of suflicient length to receive a car for transferring cars from said track or tracks to the car receiving device, and a' haulage car on the platform for moving cars on to and from the platform.

In a car haulage system, one or more tracks for loaded cars, a car receiving device displaced laterally with respect to said track or tracks, and a transfer platform movable back and forth between the track or tracks and the car receiving device for conveying cars from the former to the latter.

5. In a car haulage system, one or more tracks for loaded cars, a car receiving device displaced laterally with respect to said track or tracks, a transfer platform movable back and forth between the track or tracks and the car receiving device for conveying cars from the former to the latter, and means on said platform for moving the cars.

6. In a car haulage system, one or more tracks for loaded cars, a car receiving device displaced laterally with respect to said track or tracks, a transferplatform movable back and forth between the track or tracks and the car receiving device for conveying cars from the former to the latter, and a haulage car on the platform for drawing cars from the track or tracks on to the platform and for pushing cars from the platform onto said receiving device.

7. In a carhaulage system, one or more tracks for loaded cars, a car receiving device displaced laterally with respect to said track or tracks, a transfer platform movable back and forth between the track or tracks and the car receiving device for conveying cars from the former to the latter, and a haulage car on the platform for drawing cars from the track or tracks on to the platform and for pushing cars from the platform onto said receiving device, said haulage car having a forwardly projecting arm adapted to extend beyond the platform.

8. In a haulage system, one or more tracks for loaded cars, a car dumper arranged at,

form and to push the same from the latter.

into the car dumpen.

9. In a car haulage system, a plurality of tracks adapted to be supplied with loaded cars, a car dumper at the side of said tracks, a pit arranged adjacent the ends of said tracks and the end ofthe car dumper, a.

transfer platform movable back'and forth in said pit and having means for drawing a car from any one'of said tracks onto, the table and for pushing the car from the platform into the car dumper when. the table is shifted laterally from the track into alinement with I the car dumper.

In testimony whereof, I hereunto afiix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JOHN MOMYLER,

Witnesses:

- A. r. WIS,

C. V. SCHU'RGER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. p 

